In-story you've fled the sacked capital of Kaifeng and are building your power at Chengdu to retake the city. "Millennium", the third level of the Song-Jin Campaign.The Qin campaign, especially the second mission - you're told in the briefing that you rule all of China, you're given an absolutely massive map to build your capital city in (and for the first time of the campaigns, the map is so big it can't all fit in the minimap), and you'll come back to this map for the final mission to build the Terracotta Army.It is written in Manchu and Mandarin Chinese and needs to be read temporally, with each fold representing a day of his trip.
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It shows Qing Emperor Qianlong on his third eastern imperial tour over two months, which took him along the Great Wall of China to imperial ancestral graves in Mukden, Yenden and the Eternal Tombs in Manchuria. The folded book map was drawn with ink and colour on paper in the 18th century, and was stored in China’s Office of Imperial Diaries, its national archives. Its oval shape may have been based on Egyptian mathematician and geographer Ptolemy’s second map projection, where the latitude and longitude curve. The world map depicts the continents of Asia, Africa and Europe, with the Islamic world in the centre, and is oriented with the south at the top.
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Kitab surat al-ard, or Book of the Configuration of the Land, was written in the 10th century by Arab traveller and geographer Ibn Hawqal. The 15th century map in a manuscript is on loan from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
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The exhibition is free of charge and is held at the Level 10 Gallery of the National Library Building in Victoria Street every day from 10am to 9pm. "Ultimately, it's about what we want to show." Mr Singaravelou's co-curator Fabrice Argounes said: "Even if a map is not the most accurate representation, it can be more interesting for, say, a pilgrim to India to show the Land of the Buddha, rather than European maps that just show a few Indian towns. The 12th-century Chinese Yu map, for instance, is famous for its uncanny accuracy, with experts finding 37 coordinates that mapped exactly onto Google maps a whole millennium later. Mr Singaravelou said all this did not mean that Asian maps were always imprecise. The Edo period map is richly drawn, including descriptions of phenomena such as people being able to stay afloat in the Dead Sea, while also retaining mythological references to the land of dwarves along the Finnish-Russian border and a curious beast that could be possums. Related Story 73 national monuments 'under one roof' at exhibition to mark S'pore's preservation efforts
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One of these fruitful collaborations between Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci and Chinese cartographer Li Zhi Zhao in 1602 created a map that was also adapted in Japan and Korea, giving rise to the exhibition's star artefact - the Japanese Map Of The Myriad Countries Of The World (Konyo Bankoku Zensu). Between the 16th and 18th centuries, Jesuits in China worked with Chinese cartographers to create maps of the world, integrating their knowledge of new lands that Europe was discovering with the Chinese understanding of the world.
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European maps are on parchments or paper, but Asian maps are on silk, wood, stone, screens and porcelain," Mr Singaravelou said.Ĭurators also highlighted the cross-cultural fertilisation in map creation. Asian maps are drawn on very different materials. "This aesthetic dimension differed from the European tradition. Mr Pierre Singaravelou, one of two French curators who worked with the NLB on the project, noted how Asian maps are also works of art.Īesthetic priorities often meant intricate drawings of pilgrims en route to worship or illustrations of nature that intersperse vague land formations with roiling water bodies or a solace-giving Bo tree, under which Buddha attained enlightenment.Ī painting of Shumisengi from Japan, 1813.